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Hexler has done it. Every single platform of this multi-touch MIDI and OSC control app now has native multi-touch support: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and now Linux. And what better way to show it off than on a SteamDeck?

Intel’s upcoming Arc Battlemage graphics cards have gotten plenty of media attention through rumors, reports, and just recently an official reveal from Intel itself. But a recent Linux leak has revealed several new cards, which could possibly pose a threat to Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series.

Crowd Supply recently featured Polverine, a mikroBUS-compatible environmental sensing board for real-time air quality monitoring. It detects pollution, gas leaks, and supports ventilation control. Its compact, low-power design makes it suitable for portable and wearable applications, with Bosch Sensortec’s BMV080 PM2.5 and BME690 gas sensors providing data over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth via the ESP32-S3-MINI-1 microcontroller.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.9 as the latest stable version of this immutable and systemd-free distribution derived from Debian GNU/Linux and built on top of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

The Linux Foundation has released a comprehensive guide to help open source developers navigate the complex landscape of U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions.

This detailed tutorial explains everything about Linux system logs, types of logs, and how to view them in systemd and non-systemd systems.

Back in October following the launch of the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors I ran an AVX-512 performance comparison for the EPYC 9755 with 512-bit data path vs. 256-bit data path vs. AVX-512 disabled.

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10.2 open-source NAS solution brings enhanced cloud backup, improved NVIDIA GPU support, and refined CPU widget logic.

What is the difference between unmetered and unlimited bandwidth? Can you even get unlimited bandwidth, and if not, why do hosting providers advertise it as unlimited? This is a confusing topic for many people, and frequently, deliberately so.

January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

AMD's open source RADV Vulkan driver for Linux has already been updated to support the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs, although there will be a few minor features missing at launch — a massive improvement over previous GPU launches, which generally only received support on Linux weeks or even months after launch.

Tmux can be a confusing program if you’re new to Linux and the terminal. With its obscure commands and keybinds, it’s no surprise that some might find it unintuitive and frustrating to use. In this article, I will go through some simple tricks I did to learn and fully utilize Tmux in my daily Linux workflow.

As if existing wireless network issues were not enough.

The Linux kernel has rapidly grown, reaching an impressive milestone, surpassing 40 million lines of code.

MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1.

Red Hat engineers have been working on Nova as an open-source driver successor to the Nouveau driver for upstream NVIDIA GPU support within the Linux kernel that can be used with the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers.

Hello! Today, we’re open-sourcing Perforator, a continuous profiling system we use at Yandex to analyze the performance of most of our services.

The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.13. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday,February 02, 2025 to Sunday, February 09, 2025.

We talk about the Genode project and Sculpt OS quite regularly on OSNews, but every time I’ve tried using Sculpt OS, I’ve always found it so different and so unique compared to everything else that I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.

I said this many times before, and I'll say it again. Plasma is by far the best, most elegant and ergonomic desktop out there. It's visually pleasing, it's designed with clever thought and passion, and it comes with a bewildering array of options and settings so you can set it up just the way you like it.